Around the harbour on Saturday.

Running repairs to a beam trawler's derrick on the quayside.....
the hatch coaming and hatch badly damaged by the derrick head.....
a piece of trans-Atlantic cable fetched up from the sea bed, any one of these bits might be from the first such cable to run from the link at Porthcurno......
with the netters restricted to fishing only over neap tides, a disaster for Alan aboard the Ajax as she failed to start......
the worms have been busy in the harbour timbers again......
the level of damage to crab pots is apparent after the winter storms......
made in Truro by Calseamin.......
more winter work in readiness for the summer season....
the tug is about to get back her winch......
well it may now be February but the beer is still cheap in the Swordfish, which comes highly recommended if you need a B&B in the harbour..........
the Spring is sprung it seems.....
keeping warm atop of the mast.....
towed out through the gaps at high water.

Another Lands End.

There are plenty of Land's Ends around the world, Finnisterre being one - the Danes have their own mobile version seen here discharging to a fishmeal plant.

Berlewen drops by.

Padstow registered netter Berlewen in town for a few days before she headed off to the the Southard.

More news on the future of Harbour developments.

The news that things are about to change for Newlyn was covered by the Cornishman this week, along with a write up of last week's visit by shadow minister Richard Benyon, MEP Julie Girling and St Ives parliamentary candidate Derek Thomas.

Haiti appeal - art for sale - your chance to buy from contemporary Newlyn artists.

A great response from dozens of well known contemporary Newlyn Artists whom are donating art for a sale straight from the walls of Newlyn's Orion Gallery to raise money for the Haiti disaster via Shelter and Cornwall's own Shelterbox.

Oscar Wilde in flames.

The ferry Oscar Wilde suffered a fire at sea off Falmouth late on Tuesday evening. As there were no passengers aboard the crew were able to cope with the fire with the help of local emergency services that included the SAR team from nearby Air Station, Culdrose.

Wrap star.

Local wrap man Edwin binds the mornings monk mountain with clingfilm......
in Stevenson's cold store there is a seemingly endless supply of cuttles to deal with.....
as blackened boxes fill the quay again.....
evidence of the 'black-hand' gang abound.....
it took a fair weight to do this amount of damage to the hatch cover and coaming......
PH7 in to land today......
in Dock for the first time this year and now under its own management, Scillonian III.